Lost River Fire Management Service, Incorporated.

Lost River Fire Management Service, Incorporated, a HUBZone-certified woman-owned small business headquartered in Merrill, Oregon, operates as a prime contractor delivering wildland fire suppression, emergency response, and hazardous fuels management services to the U.S. Forest Service, National Interagency Fire Center, and allied federal agencies. The company competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements but carries multiple socioeconomic certifications—HUBZone, woman-owned small business, small disadvantaged business, and economically disadvantaged women-owned small business—that position it competitively across small-business set-asides and general federal contracting.

Lost River's federal footprint centers on fire management execution. Representative prime work includes a $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region through October 2032 for stewardship services across eight California national forests (Eldorado, Klamath, Lassen, Lake Tahoe Basin, Mendocino, Plumas, Shasta-Trinity, and Tahoe); a $6.8 million Indefinite Delivery Contract through February 2027 for up to 41 National Type 2-IA wildland firefighting crews with the National Interagency Fire Center; and a portfolio of regional heavy-equipment IDCs across Regions 3, 5, and 6 (each $250 thousand ceilings through 2029–2030) for feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, and mobile water resources. Delivery orders against these vehicles span wildfire suppression, prescribed burning, hazardous fuels reduction, and all-hazard incident response. Recent named task orders include a $318,876.80 delivery order from the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region for incident management in Yreka, California (June 2026); a $437,707.10 order from the Forest Service for fire suppression in Nespelem, Washington (September 2025); and a $138,746.13 FEMA Region 8 delivery order for emergency response to a winter storm in Smyrna, Tennessee (January 2026).

Customer concentration reflects Lost River's specialization in federal land management fire operations. The top five customer agencies account for 98 percent of combined potential value. The Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region leads by dollars ($54.3 million across 29 awards), followed by the National Interagency Fire Center ($43 million across 25 awards) and the National Park Service Intermountain Region ($40.2 million across 4 awards). The Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region places the highest volume by count (37 awards) but represents a smaller dollar share ($4.4 million). This divergence signals that Northwest work skews toward smaller delivery orders while Southwest and NIFC work anchors larger task-order ceilings and longer-duration IDC vehicles.

Lost River's activity trajectory has held steady. Awards per year numbered 22 in 2022, dipped to 13 in 2023, then recovered to 24 in 2024 and 24 in 2025, with 12 awards recorded year-to-date in 2026. Recent awards have weighted toward full-and-open delivery orders without set-aside designation; earlier awards (2022–2023) included a higher share of Total Small Business set-asides. The vendor's combined potential value across all 153 awards stands at $150.8 million, with $31.3 million obligated to date (21 percent drawdown). Category concentration is pronounced: 150 of 153 awards fall under Support Activities for Forestry NAICS, and 137 awards carry the Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression PSC code, underscoring a highly specialized operational focus.

Lost River operates exclusively as a prime contractor on federal work (153 awards, zero sub-awards in the source data) and holds no partnership relationships with other primes in its visible award footprint. The company's primary vehicles—the regional Type 2-IA crew IDIQ, the $50 million California stewardship BPA, and the VIPR (Virtual Incident Procurement) regional heavy-equipment IDCs—enable task-order issuance for rapid emergency mobilization across western and southwestern regions. Performance extends across multiple Forest Service regions (Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6), FEMA Region 8, and select National Park Service sites, with place-of-performance locations spanning California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Tennessee.

Forestry services, including fire suppression, prescribed fire, fuels management, heavy equipment and chemical application